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Before Dying of Cancer, 6 Y/O Girl Leaves, Hides Hundreds of Notes for Family to Find

News Staff : Mar 3, 2017  Gospel Herald

The notes, some drawings, some messages, were tucked away all over the house and addressed to her parents and little sister, Grace.

[Gospel Herald] After six-year-old Elena died of cancer, her family found hundreds of notes she'd written and hidden all over their home, reminding her grieving loved ones of how much she loved them. (Photo Credit: Notes Left Behind/ via The Gospel Herald)

Elena was diagnosed with an inoperable rare form of brain cancer in 2006, and her parents, Keith and Brooke Desserich, were told the little girl had just 275 days to live.

Instead of telling their daughter of her diagnosis, her parents vowed to make her short life as special and fulfilled as possible.

"We wanted to protect her so we never told her she might not make it," he explains. "We didn't want to focus on the cancer, we wanted to focus on being a family and doing all the things that Elena wanted to do."

The little girl lived for 10 months after her diagnosis, and died in August 2007. Several days after her death, her grieving family began finding notes all over the house—hundreds of them, reminding her family of her love for them. The notes…

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